Charles Harrington arrived in Rochester in 1871 to work for the railroad. It didn’t take long for...
Twin Cities Area
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The serene group of cottages around a horseshoe-shaped drive that we see today was not the first...
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Swinford Apartments
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Swinford Townhomes
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Wilder Public Baths
The Saint Paul Hotel
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
If you travel north on Highway 64 through central Minnesota, you will likely pass through Akeley...
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Before the Interstate Bridge was built between Duluth and Superior in the late-1890s, the only way...
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Milford Monument
Red Wing Iron Works
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Church of the Holy Cross
Jordan Brewery Complex
Meyer School In St Augusta
Welcome To Old Wadena
Endion Depot In Duluth
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Enter Marlon Brando
Endion School In Duluth
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Ruins of Sawyer School
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Bend in the River Regional Park
Lost Highway 61
Florence Town Hall
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Hanover Bridge
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Old School In Wolverton
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The End of the Line in Currie
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Green Lake Mounds
Historic Franconia
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Historic Wasioja
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Visiting Golden Gate
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
State Theater In Hutchinson
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Almelund Creamery
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Welcome to Hanska
Exploring Sandstone
Welcome To Dotson
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
District 6 School in New Sweden
Remembering Quadna Resort
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Welcome To Cobden
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Moderne New Ulm Library
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Hollywood Town Hall
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Little Falls Depot
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
District 48 School Near Delano
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Little Marais Inn
Old Brewery In Preston
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Moving Old Hibbing
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Le Sueur Theater
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Exploring Ottawa
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Duluth Homestead Project
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Finding The Past In Swatara
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Dead Good Walks
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Golden Gate Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan Company?
Elizabeth Quinlan is a name synonymous with the Young-Quinlan Department Store, a Minneapolis...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Sarah Prudence Ordway—known by her nickname, Sally—was born in 1910. She was the granddaughter of...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Roadtrips
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Dr. Timothy O’Brien was a country doctor and pioneer surgeon who slowly moved west from Ontario...
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
These two warehouses in Superior, Wisconsin are pretty popular places to photograph. After...
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Winter At The Lamar School
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Punished Woman’s Lake
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Welcome to Heaton
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Article Archive
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City